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title: But she thought--out of doors she will be frozen and starved, so tha… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But she thought--out of doors she will be frozen and starved, so that my eyes will never see her again! Who acts: mother, eyes. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 21

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But she thought--out of doors she will be frozen and starved, so that my eyes will never see her again!

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**Who acts:** mother, eyes · **What happens:** think, freeze, starve, not see · **To what, where:** mother

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:24:21
# text = But she thought--out of doors she will be frozen and starved, so that my eyes will never see her again!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **freeze** | future · passive |  | mother |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **starve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **see** | future | my eyes | mother |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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